Method of manufacture of wooden panel doors



Jan; l926.1u

METHOD OF MANUFACTU si Hmm RE oF WQODEN PANEL DooRs Filed may 19, 1924 AVAILABLE vcopy eemeee im s, ieee.

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METHGD 01? MNUFACTURE 0F WGDEN PANEL DORS.

Application inea May 1e, m24. serial :o0/714,402.

To all whom it may cof/Loom:

Be it luiown that L ALFRED lf. Bums, e citizen tlie United States, and e resident of Portland, county Multnomah, and C; e of (liegen: lieve invented av new and f ei'iient in Methods of Menu- ;y iwention :relates to Wooden panel to t .mi oi contract disproportionately to otliei goitioiis. The :fre-me portions amel iecluee only to a negligible Mee which they enelose. l3nt @wel le eneompaseed and bountl by tbe W. Je portions eetl must time tlieplaee seid le tiene oi' if weakel; eeii only eo coiimm its own expansion by buckling 'wliieli eene :vs tbe door uneigliy and n :25"

,mi tlie eteeliing olf the panel.

eliiti oit the problem which might is to till poiee of the peiiel eii4 miti the moisture Wliicli .ut the problem still remains ,re en e'feieiit filling of the t me lio w ottziir tl'ie object oli" my invention by pnnel---oxf it tile letter be a comi :L ueture. tbeii .ite component uniteinto bot liieeecl @il before being inserted in l de (loef. fr* oli irpino; 'tonele to cause 'tbe the pores to expend amil 'time be par z'iiell; expelled and when tbe 5.0m.' is theo. i'mnoi'efl lom the liet lineeetl beth, the com traction of the eli." in its pores and the ensuing pattini. vacuum so, induced tends 'to Suck in n sulicient quantity of the linseecl oil to iencletl tbe panels Weather proof. Besitlea my n'ietl'iocl of thus treating the door panels only may be eariiecl out with negligible expeiee in tbemenufeetuie of the floors and. the panel when eo treatecl is doofe and pai'tieulrly to that type in which' Itile Upper portion ol the door,

oit @ieee fepzuated 'from eeeh other by' condition 'l'oi being finished by ille applieetiou of peints or mtnislies :le only be desired. o

n lle negwmilmltying lzxwng, l llave illustrated one type olf panel dooito which my invention paitieulei'ly liievuwl und the (letalf oli illy Ymfiliotl :we hereinafter itullv deseiil ett l sbovye :m elevation of a door with said accompanying parte broken. away lo y#how details; ot eo11A struction; end

:2 Shows a sectional View taken along tbe li .e of Fig. l.

'lbe door is umile up of a i' 'eine section a which constitutes; the border of the door. '.lliie frame ie made up of top rail Stiles a? et the sitlee of lille door5 and e bottom rail neompaesecl by the freine are the panels l ami ff :met "'"ie penes of glass al in The panes geen members e and e and the panel l1 is seperated tbeelrom by the lock rail f and from tbe c by en intermefliete feil g. As illusti'zi'r-ecl t panels enel o are built up of a number of abutting parallel membere lf 2.1i (l t which elle pieteifebly of 'tongue and ofi-ooife eoostliieo. en to malte eeoiid and Water tight tlooi. The goeie. in each of these mbee Tous lengthwise of tbe member :md time the entire eompoete member ie inside op of members in which tbe grain time eubeteutielly in tbe seme diiee.-

tion and time tbe pene-l when :ieete by moisture will elongate m one clllreetion andV substantially none in the @that direction. In other woifs, when the composite piemel becomes moiets the expansion of the panel as e. w iole Willbe the summation oftbe,

efq'iziiisioee euch ol? its iniivduel bloalicls, Wliieli is oleo tbe cose of the bowels c in the panel fr. tbe panels are permitted to ezpend, they will eitb tenfl to force the long#- tuclial Stiles e? emiy 'trom their connections With the 'mils or else will tenti tobuclile the that they will not i'eman let. My method of dipping ezifeli individual boord (7)', or each panel, in case the panelis made up of e single panel7 ei'ectiely fills tbe exterior cells ot the wood in each member mid seele the same so that moisture cannotenter and' time expand the member.

lf em aware it is old to provide panels which ete mede u1; of veneerng or mede up portion cti nach nbcr strips and l s.

apply :i cout-inc' C insccd Oil or paint io the panels to 5cl the gaine in 'oi-icy lo picvent the )anais from swcllinc. fipplyng Said oil 0r paint with :i brnsli is ineffective; first, because tlic oil docs no"y iiill 'die' cells of tha wood and only partially envers [he surface, and Second, because Wlicn 'lha is applied in ibis manner 1iy (infila vmy raipiflv and thus canno bc applied onto *file wom :it the necessary high ilcgjrcc Ol' tcniperiil;nrce to canse Saturngiimi. .i'liicn lic panel is iinnnlrsccl in vai', of noi linsced oil., lum# ever, 'ille linsccd ai?. is n pplicil to the cxcrim' panel, :ind hair-,gg vhclif nt n. tclnpcranrc unters und fills hc Surfin@ pores :is :1 heated liquid nfl complelcly seals thc saine, Anci .jvlicn 'l'lxc member subsequently c0015 causes ilic oil in 'De drawn in the wood t@ relieve Jflic rcsultan; partial vacuum.

l" claim:

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cnnstmit high J @nifl lic cliarfictcr desmbcrl, the nictliozi im ng the vor iinaectcd by moisture ting in dipping 'che panel of the door only in a 'not material impervious to moisureancl uniting llie same to an untreatc fauna wirk.

.95. vln the manufacture of wooden panel doors oi ne character described, the method, of rendering the door unaffected by moisture mi 'isting' in dipping *bhe panel of the, (lont f in hoi; lnseeel oil, and uniting 'the same mil in un nnlrcnlcd frame Work.

i5. A. wooden panel door comprising an um renti-il iriunc und n panel united thereto, nifl palmi prior lo the assembly of the door having; been trained with :i hot materia] iin-- premium ln-Ur unnl'ccicni by nmislure.

l. .l Wunden pnncl door comprising an nizticaml ii'xunc und a panel unitel'hcretoa' :inl jmncl prior lo flic nssambly of alie door having lfwn treai'cfl with lint linsccd oil to runde-' tlw enre :loor una'cctccl by mois lling.

ALFRED F. ELES moin-lure t0 render The entirel 

